Artist Carol Cronin of Dingle on Thin Places
Does being in a thin place - a mystical landscape - affect creativity? Dingle artist, Carol Cronin says yes. 5 minute video tells her story about when travel to the Great Blasket Island and couldn't leave ... and her work, her life and her passion was changed forever.
See Carol Cronin's work at carolcronin.com
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Carol Cronin - Dingle Artist on Connection to the Land and Thin Places.
Does being in a thin place affect creativity? Dingle artist, Carol Cronin says yes. 5 minute video tells her story of travel to the Great Blasket Island and how it changed her life and transformed her work. See Carol Cronin's work at carolcronin.com
Top 12 Tourist Attractions in Dingle: Travel Ireland
Top 12 Tourist Attractions in Dingle: Travel Ireland
Great Blasket Island, Gallarus Oratory, St.James Church, Dingle Oceanworld, Dingle Whiskey Distillery, Coumeenoole Beach, Kilmalkedar Church, Eask Tower, Irish Famine Cottages, The Carol Cronin Gallery, Harry Clarke Stained Glass Windows, Minard Castle
The Carol Cronin Gallery
A 'journey into' the recent painting by Carol Cronin. 6ft x 4ft Oil on linen carolcronin.com
Best Attractions and Places to See in Dingle, Ireland
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List of Best Things to do in Dingle
Coumeenoole Beach
Eask Tower
St.James Church
Dingle Whiskey Distillery
Gallarus Oratory
Harry Clarke Stained Glass Windows
Kilmalkedar Church
Dingle Oceanworld
The Carol Cronin Gallery
Dingle Tourist Office
Episode 005 Thin Places Podcast - Dingle - Ireland
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Dingle has all of the elements people want to experience on an Ireland tour – pristine beaches, rolling hills with 40 shades of green, wild landscapes with cliffs and crashing waves, ancient historic monuments, vibrant towns, Irish culture – music, dance the pub culture, off-shore island visits, wonderful interpretive centers, fabulous food, a significant arts culture, mountains, valleys, sacred sites. Dingle has them all. It’s a worthwhile place to spend several days.
Guest Interview
We are lucky today to have with us today, Kevin O’Shea from Celtic Nature Walking Tours. …
Celtic Nature Walking Tours
SEGMENT 3 – Dingle’s spiritual vibe
Dingle has an energy that naturally connects with human spirituality. Being in Dingle lends itself to mediation, to reflection and raising one’s spiritual vibration. Dingle is a thin place.
People have written entire books about Dingle and many of them feature the draw inward, personal transformation.
Chet Raymo, who was a professor of Physics and Astronomy at Stonehill College in Massachusettes is also a brilliant writer and poet. He had a summer home in Dingle and wrote the book Climbing Brandon about Mount Brandon. He also wrote Honey for Stone, A Naturalist’s Search for God about his experiences in Dingle.
Chet admits that he’s an agnostic and states that his academic training, has led to his rejection of the religious principles he was taught as a child. He’s basically agnostic. But he writes the Dingle landscape tends to stir his own spirituality.
Honey from Stone: A Naturalist’s Search for God
Mindie’s Experience – Man in the Sand
Mark Patrick Hederman, OSB quote:
“On the summit of Mount Sinai, on the road to Santiago, God does not stand any closer or speak any louder. But we listen better.”
Carol Cronin of Dingle Interview on Thin Places
10 Things You Must Do in Dingle
SEGMENT 4 – 10 Things to do in dingle
Ten Things You Must Do in Dingle
Map of 10 things to do in Dingle
Folk Concert at St. James Church
O’Sullivan’s Courthouse Pub
Carol Cronin Gallery
Courtney’s Bakery
Celtic Nature Walking Tours
An Gailearai Beag – West Kerry Craft Guild
Harry Clarke Windows
SEGMENT 5 - CONCLUDE
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Scrogall Community TV, Dingle Peninsula, Minister Jimmy Deenihan Interview
In an interview with the Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Eva Ní Shúilleabháin discusses such topics as the Dingle Arts Centre, the importance of local festivals to rural communities and tourism in Ireland in the present economic climate
Carol singing in Cronin's Pub, with the Crosshaven Singers
Christmas carol singing in Crosshaven
Carol Cronin - Snipe Sailor
Carol Cronin's been sailing Snipes for almost 20 years. She's crewed for many of the best skippers in the class and she's going to the World's this September as crew for George Szabo.
She's a champion in her own right, winning multiple Snipe Women's Nationals. After being the top women's team at the DonQ this March, Carol and Kim Couranz went on to take a commanding victory at the Women's Nationals in Annapolis.
Downpatrick Head Ireland - Thin Places
Downpatrick Head in Ireland is on the north coast of County Mayo. It was named for St. Patrick because he is believed to have built a church there, and there still are remains of an old church and a stone marker that supposedly shows where St. Patrick's original church stood.
There's a lovely cliff walk. We were there in May when the sea pinks were in bloom. There is also a holy well and a memorial to 25 Irishmen who fled from British Redcoats during a 1795 uprising. They hid in the caves at Downpatrick Head, but couldn't get back out before the tide came in and flooded the cavern. They all perished.
But Downpatrick Head is best known for Dún Briste (Broken Fort) or the sea stack which is an outlying stone stack just off the cliff face. The landscape there defines wild which is so common to the West of Ireland.
We explore Downpatrick Head is on some of our Thin Places Tours of the Wild Atlantic Way in Ireland.
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